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The Gap Between

Between
The symbols capacity
To construct a form

Between
The alphabets capacity
To construct a configuration
Sentence

And
The conceptual capacity
Of a human
To comprehend, experience
Even imagine
What that configuration, sentence
Is saying — means

There is a gap

Because
There is a gap
We think that there can be

A view from nowhere
Objectivity
True forms

The entirety —
Of a human’s conceptual world
Comprising the vast majority
Of daily experience
Of average human

Is lived in the process
Of communicating across
That gap, with words that are
The most inadequate approximations
Of their experience

While presuming
That they are conveying experience
And
That the pointed at — in oneself or outward —
By language, symbols, utterance
Perceived as objects
Form
Idea

Is objective
Reality

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